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Understanding 9/11The Machine Stops (version 3)
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LibriVox recording of The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster. Read by Elizabeth Klett.
"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology Modern Short Stories. The story describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual now lives in isolation below ground in a standard 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. ( Summary by Wikipedia )
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October 4, 2011
Subject: Thought provoking
Subject: Thought provoking
Excellent story. Technology has developed considerably from when this was written, but the story still makes one think about the present and the future. Will technology close us off more and more from direct experience and personal contact? Technology is a powerful tool, but of course, it is for us to determine whether it is applied to good purpose.
Elizabeth Klett did an excellent job of reading this solo project for Librivox.
Elizabeth Klett did an excellent job of reading this solo project for Librivox.
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